I thought I had strained myself from running.
I have strained myself with this case and I need to get back to full health.
Strained myself today, starting a new character, Mother Frances Galyon, in the chapter "Two Nuns on a Walk".
Sometimes, I found myself straining for a response.
"I can feel myself straining to get even more into the wild.
"I found myself straining to hear her voice, and trying to talk to her," Mrs. Longone said.
As we drew into the platform, I found myself straining to see things I recognized, even familiar faces, though I had left the area some thirty years before.
I found myself straining to spot climbers scaling her flanks, even though this was plainly impossible given that we were still at least 30km away.
Even sitting relatively closely, I found myself straining to hear the piano in the cavernous opera house, distracted by many other shifting listeners and the sound of sirens seeping in from outside, probably coming from the NYPD following Eric Garner protesters.
ALL-NIGHTERS That first night without Chief, I found myself straining to hear him coming up the stairs, his arrival heralded by toenails on the hardwood, followed by the crash of the spare bedroom door opening as he strolled in to take his place on the rug.
